--If you have at least a dual-core PC with 6+GB of RAM, you might consider going with a lightweight Linux+XFCE host OS (or Mac) and Win10 as a guest VM**. Virtualbox is free and can do ~95% of what Vmware is capable of. Veeam Agent for Windows and AOMEI are both free-as-in-beer and will restore to different hardware. Snapshots are your friend, and when you hibernate a VM ain't NOTHING waking it up unless you want it to.
**Unless you need realtime speedy graphics or somesuch, for games/CAD
> Ransomware typically wipes any network drives using the SMB protocol, as Samba does, if the infected machine has access to the share:nods: --Yep, but once you A) isolate the infected machines and B) ssh into the server and do a ZFS rollback (to a pre-infection snapshot time) on the ZFS-backed Samba dataset, all is back to normal again:D Rollback even "deletes" the infected files for you. ZFS snapshots are immutable unless you have basically root on the server.
> Ransomware reminds us of another requirement - the system being backed up (which may get ransomware) can not have the ability to delete or modify the backups. Sending backups to a network drive just means the ransomware or disgruntled employee will destroy two copies of the data
--ZFS+Snapshots+Samba works pretty well for this. Keeping a ZFS snapshot every (2) hours for a month (as well as changing file permissions) is pretty easy on a Linux server.
> We dragged all his files to an external USB. I determined that there were thousands fewer files on the backup, but we pressed on nevertheless. It turned out that I had not backed up any of his Thunderbird POP3 mailboxes, where all his business-critical data was stored
--If you don't know what you did wrong, you shouldn't be trying to help friends with upgrades. Next time go to Folder Options and Show Hidden Files. And either use Xcopy from CMD window or a modern file copier like Teracopy.
--Also, grab a free copy of both AOMEI Backupper and Veeam Agent for Windows and put them on a thumbdrive -- both of these will do full bare-metal backup and restores to different hardware / virtual machines.
> Chrome is discontinuing Marvericks support, which also throws perfectly working Macs into the trash
--That's a bit harsh. You can still run Mav without Chrome (Firefox still works), and dual-boot Linux. I'm running a 2008 iMac Aluminum with El Capitan 10.11 right now -- you want them to keep supporting stuff more than 10 years? Volunteer to fork the code.
> Windows 10 has 4 position window snapping rather than 2
--And Win10 has Virtual Desktops as well, with the "task view" button. It's pretty much the ONLY thing I like about Win10, and *still* not enough reason to put up with the blatant spying and forced updates. Win10 is a loser's game - not gonna play it.
--Bruce, in all seriousness I'd like to donate an old dual-core PC that I made into a ZFS server to the Devuan project. Any way you could help? It's 64-bit but doesn't support hardware virtualization, has 4GB of RAM and runs Linux perfectly well. TIA
Parents need to rip out the godxam cameras and go medieval on the authoritarian idiots that decided to install them. 1984 was a damn WARNING, not a HOWTO manual you f--kers...
As someone who has had to deal with this on a personal basis, I kinda feel sorry for him. BUT, he needs to GET A LIFE.
I had to help with strongly encouraging my parents to kick one of my aunts out of their house, after a few years of her making their life a living nightmare. One of those next-to-useless nebbish people, still a virgin when she died.
One gets the feeling that "this will not end well" because he has obvious mental deficiencies *and* access to weapons. If I were the parents, I'd move privately to another state -- sever all ties and invest in something like ADT and guard dogs. Shake your fist at me from the other side of the moat, boy - you ain't getting back in. Ever.
--El Capitan (10.11) will run on a 10-year-old aluminum iMac. It has a Core 2 Duo 64-bit CPU, and you can upgrade the RAM to 6GB DDR2 if light virtualization is needed. (Confine yourself to 1 running VM at a time with a minimum of vRAM and renice -1 as necessary.) It will be a little slow compared to a modern build, but still doable.
--Apps which still install and run:
o All 4 major browsers: Firefox, Palemoon, Chrome, Opera
o Thunderbird
o Virtualbox
o OpenZFS
o Malwarebytes, CCleaner
o Libreoffice
o VLC
o Nomachine NX
o Midnight Commander (brew)
o Handbrake and MakeMKV
--With external drives and ReFind, you can even dual-boot a modern Linux on it. I wouldn't recommend KDE cuz the graphics card is a bit ancient, but XFCE and LXDE run fine - and they seem faster than OSX with a more recent kernel.
--The really nice thing about Mac OSX is having native virtual screens. I normally use 4 in Linux but I've got the iMac up to 8 because you can control other boxes with that nice big display and Nomachine.;-) So, one less reason to use Win10.
1. Do not try to grab major-name domains at the "country/state" level. Govs hate when you try and muscle in on "their" crap.
2. Suck it up, rename your page something like France-Expats.com or France-info.com and save yourself thousands of $$ -- and years of pointless court delays.
3. Yes it sucks. But you're never getting it back. Be realistic and move on.
--They could have raised it from $99 to $105 and made MILLIONS. $120 feels like extortion, and should be pushed back against. How do we get the massive public outcry started?
--Oh man, I used to have one of those... Programmed my own stuff (including a text-based Voltron game) in Extended Basic and saved it to an AM/FM radio with cassette tape. It had sprites and we had no idea how shitty it was, 'twas all we had and we liked it:)
Slashdot Mirror
--To which I reply, why wait?? Especially if you have Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/ClearMa...
--If you have at least a dual-core PC with 6+GB of RAM, you might consider going with a lightweight Linux+XFCE host OS (or Mac) and Win10 as a guest VM**. Virtualbox is free and can do ~95% of what Vmware is capable of. Veeam Agent for Windows and AOMEI are both free-as-in-beer and will restore to different hardware. Snapshots are your friend, and when you hibernate a VM ain't NOTHING waking it up unless you want it to.
**Unless you need realtime speedy graphics or somesuch, for games/CAD
> Ransomware typically wipes any network drives using the SMB protocol, as Samba does, if the infected machine has access to the share :nods: :D Rollback even "deletes" the infected files for you. ZFS snapshots are immutable unless you have basically root on the server.
--Yep, but once you A) isolate the infected machines and B) ssh into the server and do a ZFS rollback (to a pre-infection snapshot time) on the ZFS-backed Samba dataset, all is back to normal again
https://forums.freebsd.org/thr...
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/...
> Ransomware reminds us of another requirement - the system being backed up (which may get ransomware) can not have the ability to delete or modify the backups. Sending backups to a network drive just means the ransomware or disgruntled employee will destroy two copies of the data
--ZFS+Snapshots+Samba works pretty well for this. Keeping a ZFS snapshot every (2) hours for a month (as well as changing file permissions) is pretty easy on a Linux server.
> We dragged all his files to an external USB. I determined that there were thousands fewer files on the backup, but we pressed on nevertheless. It turned out that I had not backed up any of his Thunderbird POP3 mailboxes, where all his business-critical data was stored
--If you don't know what you did wrong, you shouldn't be trying to help friends with upgrades. Next time go to Folder Options and Show Hidden Files. And either use Xcopy from CMD window or a modern file copier like Teracopy.
--Also, grab a free copy of both AOMEI Backupper and Veeam Agent for Windows and put them on a thumbdrive -- both of these will do full bare-metal backup and restores to different hardware / virtual machines.
>to be honest, I have absolutely no idea how to maintain good backups of my Linux systems
--Tar and fsarchiver. Send me a private email and I can send you my root admin scripts, complete with bare-metal restore ability.
> Welcome to the wonderful world of Firefox ESR
--No thanks. I'll keep using Palemoon on Linux (NewMoon on Mac OSX), kthxbai
> Chrome is discontinuing Marvericks support, which also throws perfectly working Macs into the trash
--That's a bit harsh. You can still run Mav without Chrome (Firefox still works), and dual-boot Linux. I'm running a 2008 iMac Aluminum with El Capitan 10.11 right now -- you want them to keep supporting stuff more than 10 years? Volunteer to fork the code.
> Windows 10 has 4 position window snapping rather than 2
--And Win10 has Virtual Desktops as well, with the "task view" button. It's pretty much the ONLY thing I like about Win10, and *still* not enough reason to put up with the blatant spying and forced updates. Win10 is a loser's game - not gonna play it.
Jazus Crisco, now we gotta lead-line the WALLS for basic privacy anymore??
MX17 and Antix do just fine with X...?
--Bruce, in all seriousness I'd like to donate an old dual-core PC that I made into a ZFS server to the Devuan project. Any way you could help? It's 64-bit but doesn't support hardware virtualization, has 4GB of RAM and runs Linux perfectly well. TIA
You had ONE JOB lady... Incompetence of the worst sort--!
Parents need to rip out the godxam cameras and go medieval on the authoritarian idiots that decided to install them. 1984 was a damn WARNING, not a HOWTO manual you f--kers...
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k4kaw/the-millennial-who-wouldnt-move-out-of-his-parents-house-is-tragic-actually
As someone who has had to deal with this on a personal basis, I kinda feel sorry for him. BUT, he needs to GET A LIFE.
I had to help with strongly encouraging my parents to kick one of my aunts out of their house, after a few years of her making their life a living nightmare. One of those next-to-useless nebbish people, still a virgin when she died.
One gets the feeling that "this will not end well" because he has obvious mental deficiencies *and* access to weapons. If I were the parents, I'd move privately to another state -- sever all ties and invest in something like ADT and guard dogs. Shake your fist at me from the other side of the moat, boy - you ain't getting back in. Ever.
Price it at $9.99/month and they'll get more takers.
> So, in the future CPU makers don't need to invent new names. We'll just identify CPUs with the name of the newest vulnerabilities they have :)
--You joke, but the Linux kernel already does this when you do ' cat /proc/cpuinfo ':
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-x400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2
--El Capitan (10.11) will run on a 10-year-old aluminum iMac. It has a Core 2 Duo 64-bit CPU, and you can upgrade the RAM to 6GB DDR2 if light virtualization is needed. (Confine yourself to 1 running VM at a time with a minimum of vRAM and renice -1 as necessary.) It will be a little slow compared to a modern build, but still doable.
--Apps which still install and run:
o All 4 major browsers: Firefox, Palemoon, Chrome, Opera
o Thunderbird
o Virtualbox
o OpenZFS
o Malwarebytes, CCleaner
o Libreoffice
o VLC
o Nomachine NX
o Midnight Commander (brew)
o Handbrake and MakeMKV
--With external drives and ReFind, you can even dual-boot a modern Linux on it. I wouldn't recommend KDE cuz the graphics card is a bit ancient, but XFCE and LXDE run fine - and they seem faster than OSX with a more recent kernel.
--The really nice thing about Mac OSX is having native virtual screens. I normally use 4 in Linux but I've got the iMac up to 8 because you can control other boxes with that nice big display and Nomachine. ;-) So, one less reason to use Win10.
--Have you tried Palemoon? It's like Firefox before Australis. Plugins are available as well, and it has a Linux and Mac version.
> Pull the other one ...it's got bells on? ;-)
1. Do not try to grab major-name domains at the "country/state" level. Govs hate when you try and muscle in on "their" crap.
2. Suck it up, rename your page something like France-Expats.com or France-info.com and save yourself thousands of $$ -- and years of pointless court delays.
3. Yes it sucks. But you're never getting it back. Be realistic and move on.
--That's perfect - Thanks! :)
--They could have raised it from $99 to $105 and made MILLIONS. $120 feels like extortion, and should be pushed back against. How do we get the massive public outcry started?
--Oh man, I used to have one of those... Programmed my own stuff (including a text-based Voltron game) in Extended Basic and saved it to an AM/FM radio with cassette tape. It had sprites and we had no idea how shitty it was, 'twas all we had and we liked it :)
--I just got a used 2008-era iMac; really, a cheap generic 3-button mouse works fine with it. No reason to pay the Apple premium for mice.